News Archive - 1998

Here are the most important news items we have published in 1998 on PHP.net.

PHP 3.0.6 has been released!

[24-Dec-1998]
Merry Christmas! 3.0.6 is ready to go. This is mostly a maintenance release.
Some new modules make their first apperance in this version. Support for Adobe
PDF and FDF as well as XML and an initial Interbase module are now available.
If you need any of these features, or if you see something in the ChangeLog
that might apply to you, then upgrade.

PHP/MySQL ... Two great things that go great together
Combination wins Database of the Year Award at Web98

[22-Jun-1998]
"The substance of the Web is more and more residing in databases, and there
are a variety of methods used to generate Web pages. This year, we selected a
pair of "free software" tools that work together quite nicely as a platform
for building dynamic content. The award is also a tribute to the Open Source
initiative; both products are used, developed and supported by interlocking
communities of people on the Net."

PHP 3.0 Released

[06-Jun-1998]
PHP 3.0 is finally here! After 10 months of development PHP Version 3.0
is ready for production environments. Coupled with the release of the
final version of Apache-1.3.0 today, the combination provides an
unbeatable web hosting platform suitable for both small and large web
sites.

PHP 3.0 is the latest evolution of the PHP/FI 2.0 language and it offers
some dramatic enhancements. It is more than twice as fast, it uses less
memory, it has a more consistent language implementation and a much wider
set of expressions and language features than PHP/FI 2.0. An included
conversion program will help you migrate your PHP 2 scripts to PHP 3.

PHP Meaning Vote

[18-Apr-1998]PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor was chosen as the official
meaning of the PHP acronym with 53% of the votes. The possible options
were PHP HTML|Hypermedia|Hypertext Preprocesor.

New Look

[23-Mar-1998]
The PHP site has been given a serious facelift recently.
The design is courtesy of Colin Viebrock at Private World
Communications. Please let us know of any problems
with the site by sending a message to the webmasters.